And Sakamoto gives out his best fighting skills to show the Mongols he definitely means business.

Chapter 21: Fighting Strong

Sakamoto wasted no time to succeed on rescuing every hostage that the Mongols are holding them and he remained very discreet and silent as to remain unseen so that when and if a Mongol comes after him, he'll quickly fight back when the time's right. So far...there's none around, but he has to keep his eyes open just in case they came around. He looked around the entire tower and he could hear the cries of help from anywhere and it's the voices of the hostages.

He quickly dashed his way to where they were at and within a few minutes, he found the room to where they are and is determined to set them free. He soon saw two mongol guards right behind him, trying to stop him from setting them free and as they were ready to fight Sakamoto, they were no match for his quick attacks and powers to stop them. The blue and white orb blasted a huge surge of impact on the two guards like it was unstoppable and it sent them hurtling through the air and knocked them out hard.

"Try to stop me, huh?" Sakamoto said, smirking.

Then, he noticed one of them has a key to the prison door where the hostages are held at and he takes it off of him and unlocks the door and opens it wide open, causing all of the hostages in fear, assuming that he's one of the Mongols and they crouched down, shuddering. Sakamoto comes in the room and he said to all of them, "Do not worry. I'm getting you out of here."

One of the hostages looked at Sakamoto in the eye and asked, "How do we know you're not one of the Mongols?"

Sakamoto shows them the China/Japan symbol on his headband and said, "I'm fighting against the Mongols. I've been sent to rescue you guys."

The hostages' fear eventually subsided into relief when they realized that he's rescuing them and Sakamoto led them out silently and safely and as they followed him all around the tower, everyone keeping quiet all at once so no one will find themselves in peril or at risk at getting caught.

"Okay...that huge balcony is our best bet at escaping. If we can escape from there without getting caught, we should be fine." Sakamoto said, whispering.

"But...but what if we'll never make it?" one of them asked, fearfully.

"There's no time for what if's. I got some rope and that'll help you get out as soon as you can." Sakamoto added, grabbing the rope.

Most of the hostages were really unsure about this escape plan Sakamoto got because they're afraid that they might get caught or if they'll die...but Sakamoto assures them that they'll be fine and as he throws it down there, he holds onto the end of it and one by one...the hostages followed through with the escape plan and climbed out of the tower and held onto the rope.

Meanwhile, Akimitsu was busy being chased by the Mongols who ticked him off and as soon as the guards stopped, they soon noticed that Akimitsu was nowhere to be found and suspicion grew heavily upon them as they kept their guards up, but unbeknownst to them...

They found themselves struck with a single Bao guang blow to the heads and Akimitsu leaped out of nowhere and plow kicked them straight in the face, jaw, legs, knees and every single body part imaginable. The Mongols went all the way above to stop Akimitsu and finish him off for good, but he ducked and dodged every single punch he can possibly get from them and Akimitsu was not fazed at all with what they were doing.

As he kept on fighting, he had a sense that Sakamoto had already freed the hostages out in harm's way and to end this fight, Akimitsu unleashed another Bao guang that's considered his 'knockout Bao guang' and it indeed knock them out very hard. Akimitsu panted heavily and looked at the two unconscious Mongol guards and left them behind to find Sakamoto.

"They won't find these guys...eventually." Akimitsu said, before running off.

Sakamoto looked down and saw all the other hostages being free from the tower and as he took one last look, they all ran out in freedom and to Sakamoto, he felt like this mission was completed and accomplished and when he sees Akimitsu running by, he gave him a thumbs-up on the rescue completetion and Akimitsu replied the same way.

Soon enough, Sakamoto heard a huge bellow out of nowhere and he knew that it was one of the mongols and with that, Akimitsu quickly ran inside the tower to help Sakamoto in case something big was gonna go down.

"You..."

Sakamoto turns around to see the lead mongol standing in front of him holding a huge sword right in front of him and the lead mongol said, "You have insulted our victory for the last time, Bushido-Akio!"

"It's not your victory. It happens to our whole recuits' victory." Sakamoto replied back, sticking out his sword.

"Well...your recruit will fall down to me! And so will China and Japan! Mongols will rule! We will have honor! We will have our rights! And we will..."

"...get your Mongol butts kicked."

The Mongol leader turned around and saw Akimitsu standing right behind him, also holding a sword and they were ready to fight for their lives and a swordfight ensues between the three of them as it blows over. The Mongol was fighting really hard and is too determined to not let Akimitsu and Sakamoto take it all away from them, but Sakamoto and Akimitsu's determination goes 12 times that...only much more stronger than the next.

Sakamoto whacks his sword towards the Mongols' and continues clashing on and on and Akimitsu did the same thing too and he refused to let the Mongols win this one and the lead Mongol was fed up with the two of them and he attempted to slice off Akimitsu and when Sakamoto saw that, he comes forward and swipes his sword towards the Mongols' arm, causing the lead Mongol to groan in pain.

That didn't bode well for him and he retaliated by punching and throwing Sakamoto down the ground hard. Akimitsu growled at the Mongol for that and he knew he wasn't gonna take it, so he flipped, kicked and shoved him down to the ground multiple times. Sakamoto grunts in pain as he gets himself back up and panted heavily and shook off those thoughts and focused more on attacking the lead Mongol.

"I've had it with you two taking away our victory!" the lead Mongol bellowed.

"And we refuse to let you rule over everything that's good and well in our world. This one is for China and Japan." Sakamoto added.

"And I guess this is the end for you." Akimitsu agreed.

Both of them closed their eyes and concentrated on summoning their powers and it didn't take long until a surge of blue-white orbs and Bao guang combination came together and aimed it directly at the lead Mongol and as they heard him scream, they can tell that it's a mutual elemental power that no one could top out and after that, both Sakamoto and Akimitsu finished the lead Mongol off with multiple arrays of kicks, punches, flips, shoves and evidently...slamming him down 25 feet in the air and pummeled him down to the ground until the impact hits the ground.

Both guys looked down and saw the leader's helmet falling down to the ground and that can declare one major thing...

"The lead Mongol is finished." Akimitsu said.

"And good riddance too." Sakamoto agreed.

Both of them cheered for each other, high fived themselves and were happy to report that the lead Mongol is dead and Sakamoto said, "We did it, Aki. We defeated the lead Mongol."

"Yeah, who would've guessed? When we stand together in battle..." Akimitsu added.

"...we keep fighting until the battle is over." Sakamoto finished.

"And we won...big time." Akimitsu said, happily.

Sakmoto looked at Akimitsu in the eye and said, "I could not have finished this battle without you."

"We are war brothers...for life." Akimitsu said, with determination.

And it rings truth that they are war brothers and nothing could ever change that and as they departed out of the tower, Sakamoto looks up at the sky and he knows for a fact that his grandfather is smiling down in heaven, looking over his grandson and he thought to himself, 'We did it, grandfather. We did it.'

Sakamoto and Akimitsu defeated the entire Mongol army and rescued the hostages! You could say that this war is over. Let's find out what happens next!